John Warley

Welcome to my website. My webmaster, Carla, has insisted it needs to contain all sorts of chest-beating self-promotion that is not in my DNA, so I've turned over responsibility for content to her. I bear sole responsibility for the blogs, but for everything else you see and read here, blame Carla. Naturally, any compliments should be directed to me, as this is the way the world works. Remember: criticism=Carla; compliments=John. Unfair, you say? Of course, but Carla has assured me she is cool with this and, in her words, "I'm ten times tougher than you are, Big Guy." She has a point. Now I'll turn it over to her.

Hi, Warley fans, this is Carla. I'm soooo excited to be the webmaster for this site. John has already misquoted me. I told him I was one hundred times tougher than he is, but being a guy and all he salvaged a bit of pride by reducing one hundred to ten. I could say "just like a man," but launching a gender war is not the way to launch a website, so my lips are sealed. You can always tell when I'm talking/typing by the blue typeface. If John is talking/typing, it will be boring old black (no offense, Big Guy). So his precious and sacred blogs will always be in black, as he has laid down the law that I must NEVER touch/edit/correct/make more interesting his blogs. What can he do? Reduce my pay? ha-ha-ha . . . 

The South Carolina Book Festival is right around the corner, May 18 through 20 in Columbia. Big Guy and Pat Conroy will make a joint appearance on Saturday, May 19, when John introduces Pat for the keynote address. If you come, plan to get there early as the place will be packed.

Big Guy says he's hard at work, making good progress on writing The Moralist II, wherein girlfriend Fran will negotiate world peace between Art/Abe and Monty/Mamoud. Can't wait to see how THAT goes. And George? Big Guy says he's looking into liposuction while clueless Joyce joins the Sean Penn fan club. Sounds like great fun. Hurry up, Big Guy.